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745On an Alleged Truth/Falsity Asymmetry in Context Shifting ExperimentsPhilosophical Quarterly 62 (248): 530-545. 2012.Keith DeRose has argued that context shifting experiments should be designed in a specific way in order to accommodate what he calls a ‘truth/falsity asymmetry’. I explain and critique DeRose's reasons for proposing this modification to contextualist methodology, drawing on recent experimental studies of DeRose's bank cases as well as experimental findings about the verification of affirmative and negative statements. While DeRose's arguments for his particular modification to contextualist meth…Read more
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314Contrasting CasesIn James R. Beebe (ed.), Advances in Experimental Epistemology, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 71-95. 2014.This paper concerns the philosophical significance of a choice about how to design the context shifting experiments used by contextualists and anti-intellectualists: Should contexts be judged jointly, with contrast, or separately, without contrast? Findings in experimental psychology suggest (1) that certain contextual features are more difficult to evaluate when considered separately, and there are reasons to think that one feature--stakes or importance--that interests contextualists and anti-i…Read more
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